Interesting Windows Phone Stats

Mobile ad firm AdDuplex garnered plenty of attention when it revealed in November that Microsoft’s Surface with Windows RT was the most popular Windows 8 device in the two weeks after that OS launched. This week, the firm provides some fascinating stats about Windows Phone, some of which may surprise you.

AdDuplex has actually been publishing Windows Phone stats for some time. But its latest report is particularly interesting because it covers the launch of Windows Phone 8.

Countries: The biggest Windows Phone market is the US (14 percent), followed by China (13 percent), India (12 percent), Mexico, Russia, and Italy (6 percent each), and the UK (4 percent). AdDuplex notes that growth in Mexico, Brazil and Finland is notable.

Users per app. AdDuplex says that this stat can be compared to Microsoft’s claim that its partner have sold “four times” as many Windows Phone 8 handsets at launch as they did a year ago: According to AdDuplex, the average daily users per app are up about 3.5 times over last year (468 vs. 132).

According to AdDuplex, the data in this report comes from Windows Phone apps that use the AdDuplex SDK. AdDuplex describes itself as a cross-promotion network for Windows Phone and Windows 8.

The Lumia 710 bit doesn't surprise me at all, for $250 or so one is basically getting a 900 minus the premiums. It has the same CPU and RAM, but is basically half the price, so you're assured of getting the core Windows Phone experience - in full.

I feel the HTC 8S could have succeeded in this role, but it lacks the proper CPU, RAM and other essentials such as NFC. The current/WP8 generation of mid-range phones are simply too expensive IMO.

It'd be nice to see another 710 of sorts that retains the same core internals as 920, but eschews camera, HD resolution screens, etc. in order to stay within the <$300 price-point.

I'd say it's more like the other way around. What makes all Windows 8 SKU's different from Windows RT is that they run desktop apps. It's Windows RT "+" (you can use that term when you refer to your preference for Windows 8, if you like). You can run Windows RT apps on Windows 8, but the reverse isn't necessarily true (even for Store apps, since not every developer - including Microsoft - is compiling all their apps to run on ARM).

I'm not surprised that HTC is beating out Samsung in overall Windows Phone handset makers.

While Samsung pumped out some good phones in the US during the 1st (WP7) and 2nd Generations (WP7.5) of Windows Phone (such as the Focus, Focus 2 and Focus Flash), outside of North America, they only ever sold these Omnia phones, which weren't great at all, while HTC sold the more popular (and just better) Mozart, HD7, Trophy and Titan II phones and then Nokia came along and started selling their 710 and 800 phones (and then later on 610 and 900 to a smaller degree).

So yea, Samsung may have sold lots of WP7 handsets in the US because they made the Focus series, but outside the US, HTC and then Nokia were the phones to get.

I'm not surprised either at this result and I only expect the gap to widen because HTC is clearly putting more effort in WP than Samsung. I hope that after the holiday season the 8x comes to sit next to the 920 at the top of the list.

Wow... The 8X is 20th!?! No wonder they're not releasing the 8S in the United States... Although I'm unsure of the 8X's global availability right now, I would have expected it to run with the L920. I know these stats are of a time too early in the game to panic but I hope HTC makes up a lot of ground. Windows Phone would suffer if another phone maker were to drop it. I think that's at risk here.

Nokia should be able to get even more market share for the Lumia 920 when the exclusive agreement with AT&T is over. The Slate Grey Model still has not come to the U.S. yet. Plus, they have not explore the metallic colors pallets like Samsung has how on their Galaxy lines. Other carriers too will be able to offer it too.

I just waiting it out so I can buy my 920 Slate Grey unlocked by Nokia; hopefully in May-June time frame.

I just hope that Nokia make a smaller top of the line Lumia to compete directly with the iPhone5. Many people like that size of a phone since it is easier to carry. Blackberry10 is very close to the size of the iPhone5 surprise huh?

If Microsoft continues to make improvement on WP8 and can get some market share from RIMM's Blackberry - since Microsoft already have the PC and Enterprise in their; if they can get it prime for business usage - security and intergration to existing software; WP8 should get a large percentage of the Fortune 1,000 companies.

Because T-Mobile is largely ignored (it just doesn't have mindshare), it doesn't surprise me that the 710 & Radar are forgotten devices. I was really surprised how much T-mobile pushed the 710 the few times I was in their store ($0 up front helps!), and the Radar was on 50 or 100 if I remember right. The radar was a beautiful phone and a real "original", not just a re-purposed Android model. Having no iPhone, at least to me, helped even the odds a sales associate would push it.

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